LIAR GAME (2026)
Synopsis
When Nao Kanzaki receives a strange letter and a suitcase containing 100 million yen, she learns that she has been selected to participate in the LIAR GAME. In this high-stakes psychological battle, lies, deception, and betrayal reign supreme. Naïve and honest, Nao turns to Shinichi Akiyama, a brilliant former con artist, to survive the twisted game. In a game built on lies, can honesty prevail?
First Air Date: 2026-04-07
Last Air Date: 2026-07-28
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 24
Networks: TV Tokyo, TV Aichi, TVQ, TV Osaka, TVh, TSC
Top Cast
- Saya Hitomi as Kanzaki Nao (voice)
- Takeo Otsuka as Akiyama Shinichi (voice)
- Kazuhiro Nakaya as Reronira (voice)
- Nobuo Tobita as Fujisawa Kazuo (voice)
- Yoji Ueda as Tanimura Mitsuo (voice)
- Yasutaka Tomioka as Eda Teruyuki (voice)
- Shoya Ishige as Kikuzawa Takahiro (voice)
- Ryosuke Asano as Kitamura Hiroto (voice)
- Taro Kiuchi as Sato Tetsuzo (voice)
- Riko Akechi as Tamura Makiko (voice)
Seasons
Season 1 (2026)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: The Legendary Con Artist
A naive young woman named Nao is dragged into the Liar Game and seeks the assistance of a notorious conman.
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Ep. 2: Shockwave
Nao and Akiyama crank up the pressure to try to retrieve Nao's millions.
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Ep. 3: Resolution
The first round of the Liar Game reaches its end and a new round begins.
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Ep. 4: Minority Rule
Nao frets over her chance of survival as the rules of the Minority Rule game are explained.
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Ep. 5: Alliance
Akiyama and Nao proceed further into the Minority Rule game with their alliance strategy.
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Ep. 6: Initiative
With the player known as X revealed, the Minority Rule game enters a terrifying new stage.
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Ep. 7: The Losers' Revival
The Minority Rule comes to its shocking conclusion, and Nao seeks a way to get back into the game.
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Ep. 8: Downsizing Game
Leronira explains what this game will entail, and the players begin making their first plans.
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Ep. 9: Light and Darkness
Nao makes a desperate ploy to climb out from the depths of despair.
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Ep. 10: Salvation
The other Revival Round players scramble for the votes to save themselves.
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Ep. 11: Contraband Game
Leronira introduces the surviving players to the complex rules of the Contraband Game.
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Ep. 12: Yokoya
The game begins, and both teams lay out the strategies they will follow in the opening rounds.
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Ep. 13: Fissures
Kikuzawa tests his surefire method for detecting contraband, while Akiyama and Nao try to figure out Yokoya.
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Ep. 14: Dictatorship
The Country of Day team corners Kikuzawa to make him reveal how he knew Yokoya before entering the game.
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Ep. 15: Secret Plan
Akiyama comes up with a plan to compensate for the Country of Day's weaknesses, but Yokoya also makes a move.
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Ep. 16: Turbulence
Akiyama concocts a new plan to pull his team out of a hopeless situation.
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Ep. 17: Tip-off
The curtain is pulled back on the Country of Night and the system of control used by Yokoya.
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Ep. 18: Caution
Yokoya learns of Akiyama's plot and begins his counter-strategy.
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Ep. 19: Solidarity
The Contraband Game reaches its climax and the final standings are revealed.
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Ep. 20: Provacation
No overview for this episode.
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Ep. 21: Episode 21
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Ep. 22: Episode 22
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Ep. 23: Episode 23
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Ep. 24: Episode 24
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